Keep one's bed

Meaning:
Stay in bed because of sickness or other cause.

If you keep your bed, you keep lying on bed because you are sick.

Example:
Is Nancy sick?
Yes, very. She keeps her bed all day.
Kick the bucket

Meaning:
Die

If you say someone kicked the bucket, you mean someone died.
This is an informal expression. (a kind of slang)

Example:
That old guy finally kicked the bucket last week.

When I kick the bucket, bury me on top of that mountain.
The last/final straw
Meaning:
The last in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events that makes you unable 
to accept a situation any longer.

If an event that follows a series of bad events or experience makes you feel 
you cannot tolerate a situation
any more and finally decide to leave it or do something to change it,
you call the event the last or final straw.
People also call it the last/final straw that broke the camel's back.


Example:
The low salary and the demanding boss were bad enough, but the rude co-worker 
was the last straw.
(Then I decided to quit the job.)

I bought a car three months ago, but I had a brake and transmission problems.
Last week's engine trouble was the final straw.
(I decided to sell it or junk it.)
Be like taking candy from a baby
Meaning:
To be very easy to do.

If something is like taking candy from a baby, it is very easy to do.


Example:
A: It was a very impressive video presentation. I imagine it was very difficult 
to make such a complex work.
B: No, it was very easy with this software -- like taking candy from a baby. It 
took me only an hour to make it.

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